Gilles H. Peslherbe is a Professor in the Departments of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Physics and Chemical & Materials Engineering at Concordia University. He obtained a Diplôme d’Ingénieur Chimiste from the Ecole Supérieure de Chimie Industrielle in Lyon, France in 1991, and a PhD in Physical Chemistry and Computer Engineering from Wayne University, USA in 1995. He then pursued a joint postdoctoral fellow with Branka Ladanyi at University of Colorado at Boulder, USA, and James T. Hynes at Colorado State University, USA, until he was hired as Associate Professor at Concordia in 1998.